Want to overclock my new build! (I'm new)

[LiveOrDie]

you sould be able to push it to 3.2Ghz or higher useing that cpu with watercooling you need to up the volts on the NB to 1.5v, vcore to 1.4, cpu vtt uped 5/10 volts run ram and fsb unlinked fsb at 1465 and try your ram at 900

 

[Ravenas]

I have the q6600 Kentsfield model.

 

[Ravenas]

you sould be able to push it to 3.2Ghz or higher useing that cpu with watercooling you need to up the volts on the NB to 1.5v, vcore to 1.4, cpu vtt uped 5/10 volts run ram and fsb unlinked fsb at 1465 and try your ram at 900

What multiplier should I use?

 

[DOM]

I have the q6600 Kentsfield model.

all the Q's are Kentsfield look at the pic

 

[LiveOrDie]

Kentsfield are hard to oc and you cant push them as high as conroe chip and all cpu are different same people mite hit 3Ghz and other only 2.8Ghz and 680i MB arnt all that good when it comes to ocing Kentsfield chips

 

[Ravenas]

Ah, the box says SL9UM...From what I understand SL9UM means B3. So yes, I have the B3 verison. However, from my understanding the heat issues between the 2 don't come into play on the higherend motherboards due to better heatsinks. Also, watercooling plus 6 fans help.

 

[LiveOrDie]

leave your multiplier on 9X you should be able to get to 3GHz just try uping the cpu vtt 5volts and NB to 1.5 mosty it the NB that holds you back

 

[Ravenas]

when you said NB/PCIE, did you mean +0.15V?

 

[DOM]

333 X 9 for 3GHz try 1.45v on the v-core if its stable you can lower it untill its un-stable then back up 1

 

[Ravenas]

tried 333x9 1.45v, 900mem freq

system didn't boot past bios/boot menu selection screen

 

[DOM]

man I hate Gigabyte mobos to many setting in the bios you have to set

cuz did you set all of them or is there some on auto ? volts, pci-e mhz, nb etc.

 

[LiveOrDie]

try HT Voltage at +0.2V North Bridge at +0.2V South Bridge at +0.2V and then try fsb at 360 and mem at 900 the North Bridge get realy hot so don't up it to much

 

[Mussels]

keep the temps in C if you can.

42C is fine, these chips would run at 55C at stock clocks on the stock cooler, in warm weather. If you keep it at or below 50C, you're quite safe.

If you can run your ram lower while OCing thats the best bet, even if your ram is at 533MHz DDR, you know any instabilities/noboots are caused by the CPU/overclock alone. then you repeat the test with the CPU lower and the ram up, and find a happy medium between the two later.

Edit: yeah you have a B3. B3's run hot, having water you can counter that. You on water, will OC like a G0 would on air. But hey, in the end its just as fast.

 

[Ravenas]

man I hate Gigabyte mobos to many setting in the bios you have to set

cuz did you set all of them or is there some on auto ? volts, pci-e mhz, nb etc.

As far as voltage settings go it is as follows:

System Voltage Control: Manual
DDR2 Voltage Control: Normal
NB/PCIE Voltage: Normal
SB/PCIE Voltage: Normal
FSB Voltage Control: Normal
SB Standby Voltage: Normal
CPU Voltage Control: 1.37500V

 

[LiveOrDie]

try this but your cpu clock ratio as 9x and leave your ram as it is try your cpu voltage as 1.4/1.45

 

[Ravenas]

Ok...this is weird.

This is my setup.

I used 1.5vcore

Used all setting you recommended Live or Die. Would boot past bios selection on 360 fsb but wouldn't make it into windows. However, with 333 fsb, wouldn't boot past bios selection.

 

[DOM]

As far as voltage settings go it is as follows:

System Voltage Control: Manual
DDR2 Voltage Control: Normal
NB/PCIE Voltage: Normal
SB/PCIE Voltage: Normal
FSB Voltage Control: Normal
SB Standby Voltage: Normal
CPU Voltage Control: 1.37500V

normal means there at stock

DDR2 Voltage Control: +.4 on the mem which should be 1.8v + .4 = 2.2v

NB/PCIE Voltage: +0.05v

SB/PCIE Voltage: Normal
FSB Voltage Control: Normal
SB Standby Voltage: Normal
CPU Voltage Control:1.5v

 

[Ravenas]

The specs I used in bios were prior to your picture bios reply Live or Die.

 

[LiveOrDie]

try running lower fsb till you find a stable pont and try uping your ram volts a little whats your stable pont you have reached and on what volts

 

[Ravenas]

320 fsb with 1.375vcore, 800 mem freq

 

[LiveOrDie]

try 366 fsb with 1.4 vcore, 800 mem so what when you get to windows loading bars it restarts or you get a bluescreen

 

[DOM]

Quad Core Overclocking

GIGABYTE GA-N680SLI-DQ6

Needless to say, quad core overclocking on the 680i platforms have not been spectacular and downright worrisome, considering that we have not been able to reach a stable 333FSB with any 680i board until ASUS released their 1002 BIOS for the Striker Extreme last week. We understand EVGA will be releasing a fix for their reference board design shortly so maybe the problems will be solved. In the meantime, if you are looking for high FSB overclocks with your quad core then look at the Intel P965 or AMD RD600 chipsets.

We dropped the multiplier on our QX6700 and were unable to improve upon the same 325 FSB level at the stock 10x multiplier. The board would not even POST past a 340FSB and we could enter XP at 332FSB, but it was only good for a screenshot session. We required the F3B BIOS to reach our final benchmark stable 325FSB setting as the F3A was not stable above 312 and the shipping F2 BIOS topped out at 304. Although the board is touted as being "Quad-Core optimized", we did not see it. Gigabyte engineering is working to address this shortcoming, although if it is being caused by the chipset itself they may not have much success. We will continue to monitor the situation for now.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2936&p=4

seems the mobo cant oc the Q good

what bios are you using ?

 

[Ravenas]

nope didn't make it past bios select/boot up select screen

 

[Ravenas]

when i get past windows loading it goes black screen and restarts before the vista icon pops up

 

[LiveOrDie]

all 680i board are different even the same models its just luck if you get one that overclocks beter then the other